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Haṭhaluṭha dala — Narasiṃha tongue-twister

mālinīNarasiṃha Stotra (Trivikrama Panditācārya)
Kannada
ಲು ಘಿಷ್ಟೋತ್ಕಣ್ದಷ್ಟೋಷ್ ವಿದ್ಯುತ್ ಠಿನೋರಃ ಪೀಭಿತ್ಸುಷ್ಠುನಿಷ್ಠಾಮ್ತಿನು ಕಣ್ಠಾಧಿಷ್ ಘೋರಾನ್ತ್ಮಾಲಾ ಸಿಂಹಾಸಹ್ವೀರ್ಯಾಹಿತಮ್ ಮೇ
Devanāgarī
लु घिष्टोत्कण्दष्टोष् विद्युत् ठिनोरः पीभित्सुष्ठुनिष्ठाम्तिनु कण्ठाधिष् घोरान्त्माला सिंहासह्वीर्याहितम् मे
Romanized (IAST)
haṭhaluṭha dala ghiṣṭotkaṇṭhadaṣṭoṣṭha vidyut saṭaśaṭha kaṭhinoraḥ ṭhabhitsuṣṭhuniṣṭhāmpaṭhatinutava kaṇṭhādhiṣṭha ghorāntra daha daha narasiṃsahyavīrhitam me

Romanized (IAST)

haṭha-luṭha-dala-ghiṣṭot-kaṇṭha-daṣṭoṣṭha-vidyut saṭa-śaṭha-kaṭhinoraḥ pīṭha-bhit-suṣṭhu-niṣṭhām | paṭhati nutava kaṇṭhādhiṣṭha ghorāntra-mālā daha daha narasiṃhāsahya-vīryāhitaṃ me ||

What it means

A verse from the Narasiṃha Stotra, deliberately built from dense retroflex consonant clusters (ṣṭ, ṇṭh, ṣṭh, ṭh...) as much as from its devotional content -- reciters traditionally use it to test articulation. Its refrain, 'daha daha narasiṃha asahya-vīrya-ahitaṃ me', is a fierce appeal to Narasiṃha -- lightning-eyed, jaw clenched in fury, wearing a garland of torn entrails -- to 'burn away' an unbearable, hostile force afflicting the devotee. (No single standard published translation was found for this particular verse; the gloss above is a best-effort reading, and it's included here chiefly to show off how cleanly the model articulates its brutal conjuncts.)

Syllable timings on this page are an estimate: derived from the chant's own guru/laghu (light/heavy syllable) prosody and scaled to this clip's real length, not a frame-exact forced alignment — so the highlight tracks the rhythm closely but may drift slightly from the exact syllable being sung. Each syllable is transliterated independently into Kannada, Devanāgarī, and IAST, matching the three-script display used elsewhere in the project.